Bobbie Jean Sawyer

2 days ago | texasmonthly.com | Bobbie Jean Sawyer

When singer-songwriter Laci Kaye Booth performed “George F***** Strait” at Nashville’s CMA Fest earlier this month, she warned the audience that her new song wasn’t for everyone. “It’s making a lot of old biddies on Facebook mad,” the East Texas native told the crowd, before launching into a sultry ode to the King of Country. “Lord, if I can’t have him / I’ll get on my knees and pray,” Booth sings over snarling guitars as the song builds from a simmer to a scorching fervor.

Dec 19, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Since its release on the 1994 album Gringo Honeymoon, Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas From the Family” has become the “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” for those of us whose family get-togethers are less Hallmark and more National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. It’s not just humor, though, that has made the song a holiday—and honky-tonk—tradition.

Sep 27, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Bobbie Jean Sawyer

When Miranda Lambert penned “Hello Shitty Day” with Jesse Frasure, Jessie Jo Dillon, and George Strait hit machine Dean Dillon, she knew just who she wanted to record the song: Jake Worthington, a rising honky-tonker who shares her reverence for traditional Texas music and barroom weepers. “Jake was the first person I thought of to sing it,” Lambert says of the new tune, released September 27. “We’re both Texans who grew up on the same traditional country music, and I love watching his star rise.

Aug 5, 2024 | barnburnermag.com | Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Back in March, Kacey Musgraves preceded Brat Summer with what can only be described as Saturn Return Spring, a month-long stretch of releases by artists such as Ariana Grande, SZA and Musgraves reflecting on the that occurs roughly every 29.5 years.

Jul 17, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Bobbie Jean Sawyer

Post Malone kicked off “A Night in Nashville” with his song “Rockstar,” but it quickly became clear at Tuesday night’s event that he’s bound for country stardom. To open his set at Marathon Music Works, the Grapevine-raised artist infused his 2017 trap hit with the soaring fiddle of legendary session musician and fellow Texan Larry Franklin, who’s appeared on records by Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Ray Price, and Lee Ann Womack, to name just a few.